Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: The Chelsea Girls

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At the majestic Castro Theatre, San Francisco Cinematheque presents The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s sprawling parody of the Hollywood melodrama. Inspired by wide-screen cinema, this enormous double-projected camp classic simultaneously screens scenes from the decadent and desperate downtown lives of Warhol’s art world entourage, in garish color and gritty black and white. Mary Woronov appears in her debut role as Hanoi Hannah, interrogating a humiliated cast of captured GI Joes (portrayed by Ultra Violet and International Velvet) with other outrageously improvised “performances” by Nico, Eric Emerson, Brigid Polk, filmmaker Marie Menken and the one and only Pope Ondine. Soundtrack features a rare live recording of the Velvet Underground.

Mary Woronov in person

- Chelsea girls (16mm film, black & white and color, sound, 204 minutes in double screen)

Admission: $15 general/ $12 Cinematheque, Frameline, SFMOMA members
Box Office: CASH ONLY

Venue: 

Castro Theatre - San Francisco, United States

Dates: 

Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 19:00 to Friday, November 7, 2014 - 18:55

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Dates: 

Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 19:00 to Friday, November 7, 2014 - 18:55

Venue: 

  • 429 Castro Street
    94114   San Francisco, California
    United States
    37° 45' 43.3188" N, 122° 26' 5.1324" W